It seems remarkable that James, of all people, who thought it atrocious for one person to assume command over the body and soul of another, should imagine himself as an emperor with half a continent under his sway, yet it may be that the novelist was planning one last work, and there is also a strange, if slender, link with his early life.
When the Snake of the Festival emerges, it merges its consciousness with Yuji's, assuming command over Bal Masqué, and together they formulate an elaborate plan to create a parallel world called Xanadu, which will serve as a paradise for Denizens with unlimited Power of Existence.
Upon the ship's arrival at Singapore, Lord Mountbatten was transferred to command and Commander Geoffrey Barnard assumed command.
He assumed command in 1943 as a Second Lieutenant USAAF assigned to the Pacific Command in the Philippines.
On August 19, Major General Horatio Gates assumed command from Schuyler, whose political fortunes had fallen over the loss of Ticonderoga and the ensuing retreat.
The intriguing, and rather saddening, historical detail is that Brian Clough was 32 when he took over at Derby County and Don Revie 33 when he assumed command at Leeds United.
Field assumed command of "Milne Force", a task force which exercised operational control over all Allied air, land and naval forces in the area, but only when an attack was imminent.
Once Margaret Thatcher assumed command, his ministerial talents were largely limited to defence, the civil service and the Treasury, as a technician left over from the Edward Heath era.
However, after the campaign in Macedonia was over, a large number of Greek troops were redeployed to Epirus, where Crown Prince Constantine himself assumed command.
